| The Life of Dr. J.R. Miller |
Chapter 9 |
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Everywhere the critics received Dr. Miller’s volumes kindly. A writer in the Edinburgh Expository Times said of “A Help for the Common Days”:
“It is a work that for a moment may be confounded with ____’s (naming a famous devotional writer). It is really quite distinct. ____ at his best mounts up with wings as eagles. Dr. Miller is always at his best, and always is content to walk. And this is no disparagement of Dr. Miller. If we may believe Principal Reynolds, this steady upward plodding in a narrow path is better than raptures of reconciliation. Therefore for strength in daily duty, the duty of patient, silent waiting for the slow ‘grinding of the mills of God,’ we shall seek Dr. Miller.”
A well known American critic said of “The Building of Character”:
“It has the charming simplicity of all your work. You have the rare art of saying things clearly, effectively, tenderly, applicatory, and yet without the air of a pedagogue and without the tone of preachment.”
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